Monday, March 15, 2010

Food Inc.

I'm so glad I don't eat pork and beef.

I'm now rethinking my decision to eat chicken and turkey because of this movie.

The film-makers take an in-depth look at the places where our food in super markets comes from. And it's definitely not the places we think it's coming from. The fresh fruit, vegetables and meat that we think are coming from a farm are actually coming from a plant where our food is manufactured rather than grown. Animals are genetically engineered to be larger than they are naturally supposed to be. And the vegetables that we buy that are out of season are picked off the vines before they are ripe and are ripened on the way to our stores with gases and chemicals.

Probably the most shocking part of the film is what food "engineers" are doing with corn. There is an over-abundance of corn being grown and then genetically modified into cheap easy foods like chips and pop. They even show a family who goes to the grocery store to try to feed their family of four and instead of buying fresh fruits and food they have to settle for the genetically engineered food because they can't afford nutritious food.

It's crazy that it's taken someone this long to trace the footsteps of where our food has come from. But now that someone has, I wonder if it will change the way we eat. Probably not since the genetically modified foods are so delicious. It's kind of like Supersize Me where they told you all these bad things about McDonalds, yet you left the movie with a craving for french fries!

This movie is enough to turn anyone into an organics-only health nut

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